The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada (also known as Standard Life) was an investment, retirement and financial protection company and is now part of Manulife Financial.

[1] Standard Life first established a presence in Canada through John George Irvine, who took an agency in Quebec in 1834.

[2] Spencer Campbell Thomson, son of the manager of the Standard Life Assurance Company, visited Canada in 1882 and approved a new Canadian head office in St James Street.

[3] On January 30, 2015, the Canadian operations of Standard Life plc joined Manulife.

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